Tennis champion Novak Djokovic receives a rapturous welcome in his native Serbia, a day after winning the Wimbledon title for the first time.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez addresses cheering crowds in Caracas after having a cancerous tumour removed in Cuba.

There are clashes at a Cairo courthouse after a judge bails seven police officers accused of killing protesters in Egypt's uprising.

The four US astronauts who will crew the last ever space shuttle mission arrive in Florida to prepare for their Friday launch to the International Space Station.

Japan's Reconstruction Minister Ryu Matsumoto resigns just a week into the job, after making insensitive remarks to governors of tsunami-hit areas.

France's Christine Lagarde is to become the first female managing director of the IMF, at a time of heightened global financial nerves.

India's health minister says homosexuality is a "disease" which is "spreading fast" in the country, drawing criticism.

Supporters of a proposed new state in southern India begin a two-day strike, one day after 81 lawmakers there stage a mass resignation over the issue.